Wednesday, July 1, 2009

MIX: Toyan - How The West Was Won ~ in the mix

Here's a new foundation mix based around a great deejay album from the golden rub-a-dub days. The album in question is ***How The West Won*** by (Ranking) Toyan, released in 1981 on the great Greensleeves label. It's a Henry 'Junjo' Lawes production with Soljie Hamilton & Scientist at the controls. Add to that the fabulous Roots Radics for the riddims and you have all ingredients for a wicked album from start to finish. Toyan is one of my favourite deejays of those days and this album is one of the reasons why. What I love especially is the use of riddims from a whole heap of other killer tunes from the era by artists like the Wailing Souls, Michael Prophet, Johnny Osbourne, Barry Brown and Hugh Mundell. For this new mix I selected the vocal companions to the tracks Toyan is toasting over on How The West Was Won and mixed them together in album order. No dub-sides were added in this mix, just the vocal and Toyan's deejay version. As with all my mixes, no full tunes, shorter pieces mixed together, resulting in a lifely mix of 28 minutes of early dancehall niceness. The good news is that, if you want to get hold of the full tunes in good quality (and I can imagine you do), many of these tunes can be found on albums that are available again these days. I've added the source of each track and if you enjoy what you hear I'd say, treat yourself and go get 'm; there's wicked intro's and further parts of the tunes on the Toyan album and there's plenty of other wicked tunes on those other albums too! Check it out and enjoy and leave a comment if you liked the mix!

3 comments:

Will upload it soon, but why no zshare? You say it sucks, but for me it's about the only one that has been working 100% fine since I've been using it and the only site with an online player if you have the right plug-in installed for firefox, plus it gives download numbers and is very easy in use; which all combined made it my preferred choice.

BMC's Reggae Blog

Welcome to my blog! I'm BMC, a music lover and preferably play the good old wax: vinyl 4 life! I use this blog primarily to post my latest reggae mixes, as an archive for tracklists of mixes I did in the past, pictures of records/sleeves I love and occassionally for further reggae related topics like reviews, videos, information on releases, live shows and more.

What I try to achieve with my mixes is to show listeners the lovely music that is out there, to make listeners enjoy themselves through the power of the music and last but not least to hopefully introduce listeners to artists, riddims, tunes, producers and / or labels that they otherwise might not have heard of and with that possibly a bit of extra exposure maybe even leading to people buying, visiting shows or at least following those involved more closely. I'm very pleased to have had numerous compliments and comments of appreciation from people in the business (artists, producers and label-owners from JA, UK and EU) encouraging this way of using their music for more exposure and as appreciation for their works! Thanks to all listeners for your support, but also to all included artists, producers, musicians and labels for the great music!

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